New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 4 - CULTURAL RESOURCES
Chapter 12 - COMMUNITY ARTS RESOURCES
Part 11 - ART IN PUBLIC PLACES PROGRAM
Section 4.12.11.12 - DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROSPECTUS

(1) Purchase prospectus - created by AIPP staff for several sites. Each site's RBC selects artwork for its facility.

(2) Commission prospectus - created by AIPP staff in collaboration with the LSC. These are site-specific works created exclusively for a certain location.

(1) The LSC shall consider various criteria in order to identify what type of art it is looking for.

The criteria must be written into a prospectus.

(2) LSC members have a responsibility to determine as much about what they want as possible and to include that information in the prospectus, in order not to waste their own time reviewing needless submissions, or the time of artists in preparing inappropriate submissions.

(1) Location - interior, exterior and any other particular locations should be considered. When possible, AIPP staff encourages the art selection committee to select artwork that can be an integral part of the structure.

(2) Medium - determination of suitable materials composing the artwork, size/scale of the artwork, two or three dimensional artwork, maintenance and the budget available in relation to the scope of the project and potential sites.

(3) Style - the style an artist uses to express his ideas. For example, traditional, folk-art, abstract, non-objective, figurative, representational, etc.

(4) Eligibility - all competitions are open to New Mexico artists, and, depending on the scope of a project, the competition may be open to larger regions.

(5) Receipt deadline - the designated date when artist submissions must be received by NMA to remain eligible for the project. The art selection committee shall not review late submissions or incomplete artist submissions.

(6) Art selection process - all AIPP projects must be open and fair competitions.

(7) Submission requirements - the specific materials the artist must submit as part of the artist submission.

(1) NMA email blast, newsletter, the NMA website --www.nmarts.org, and NMA social media outlets (e.g. Facebook, Instagram) or other comparable methods.

(2) Public service announcements - the NMA staff shall send public service announcements to appropriate media, including newspapers, arts publications, and radio stations, locally, statewide and nationally.

(3) Press advertisements - the art selection committee may designate one member who shall make sure the project is advertised in the local media.

(4) Other information outlets - traditional media outlets are often insufficient to generate the participation of certain artists. If an art selection committee is interested in a particular constituency group, the art selection committee members shall make an effort to make whatever contact possible with members of that group and enlist their help in spreading the word.

(5) Invitational competition. - in addition to having a competition open to all eligible artists, prospectuses may be distributed to targeted artists to encourage them to apply.